detention

Detention is defined as the state of being confined or delayed somewhere, or kept after school for punishment.

When you are locked up in prison for a short period of time as punishment, this is an example of detention.

When you are made to stay after school because you did something wrong, this is an example of detention.

detention

a detaining or being detained; specif.,

a keeping in custody; confinement

an enforced delay

a form of punishment in which a student is required to stay after school

Origin of detention

Middle English detencioun ; from Old French detention ; from Classical Latin detentio ; from detentus, past participle of detinere: see detain

detention

noun

The act of detaining.

The state or a period of being detained, especially:

a. A period of temporary custody while awaiting trial.

b. A holding of a person in custody or confinement by authorities for political or military reasons.

c. A form of punishment by which a student is made to stay after regular school hours.

Origin of detention

Middle English detencioun, act of withholding, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin d&emacron;tenti&omacron;, d&emacron;tenti&omacron;n-, from d&emacron;tentus, past participle of d&emacron;tin&emacron;re, to detain; see detain.

Sentence Examples

A royal decree, dated February 1891, established three classes of prisons: judiciary prisons, for persons awaiting examination or persons sentenced to arrest, detention or seclusion for less than six months; penitentiaries of various kinds (ergastoli, case di reclusione, detenzione or custodia), for criminals condemned to long terms of imprisonment; and reformatories, for criminals under age and vagabonds.

The story of his detention by the governor (officially styled captain) of Malacca - a son of Vasco da Gama named Alvaro de Ataide or Athayde - is told with many picturesque details by F.

His wild extravagance, however, forced his father to forestall his creditors by securing his detention in semi-exile in the country, where he wrote his earliest extant work, the Essai sur le despotisme.

In 1901 Bellary was chosen as one of the places of detention in India for Boer prisoners of war.

The rupture, therefore, took place in the middle of May; and on a flimsy pretext the First Consul ordered the detention in France of all English persons.